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From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: Disable fine grained traps on boot
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2021 18:03:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7kqey42.wl-maz@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210401154805.GL4758@sirena.org.uk>

On Thu, 01 Apr 2021 16:48:05 +0100,
Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 04:14:35PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > On Thu, 01 Apr 2021 13:49:36 +0100,
> > Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > > +	msr_s	SYS_HFGRTR_EL2, xzr
> > > +	msr_s	SYS_HFGITR_EL2, xzr
> > > +	msr_s	SYS_HFGWTR_EL2, xzr
> 
> > nit: consider grouping SYS_HFGWTR_EL2 and SYS_HFGRTR_EL2 together,
> > since they affect the same registers.
> 
> Ack, I'd sorted them numerically IIRC.
> 
> > > +	mrs	x1, id_aa64pfr0_el1		// AMU traps UNDEF without AMU
> > > +	ubfx	x1, x1, #ID_AA64PFR0_AMU_SHIFT, #4
> > > +	cbz	x1, .Lskip_fgt_\@
> 
> > > +	msr_s	SYS_HAFGRTR_EL2, xzr
> 
> > Do we need to document the need for SCR_EL3.FGTEn to be set so that
> > these register accesses don't trap? That'd be consistent with what we
> > do for other features (PtrAuth, AMU...).
> 
> Yes, good point.  We should if this is going in - this is the result of
> some other stuff I've been sending to document disabling these on boot,
> Will wanted to have code doing that, so I'll pull that into there.  It
> does end up being a bit weird that we demand this be enabled so we can
> explicitly not use it, but better to do that so we can in future decide
> to take advantage of it.

I definitely have plans for this feature right now, as some of the
traps that KVM uses could be minimised using FGT, so I don't believe
the feature will stay unused for too long.

Thanks,

	M.

-- 
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      reply	other threads:[~2021-04-01 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-01 12:49 [PATCH] arm64: Disable fine grained traps on boot Mark Brown
2021-04-01 15:14 ` Marc Zyngier
2021-04-01 15:48   ` Mark Brown
2021-04-01 17:03     ` Marc Zyngier [this message]

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